S H A W N P O W E L L
Curriculum Vitae
Born St. Clair, Missouri, 1978
EDUCATION
MFA Painting, Hunter College-City University of New York, New York, NY
BFA Painting and Art History, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Triangle, Circle, Square, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH (solo-forthcoming, October)
Flags-nido, Marrow Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2022
PARK, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH (solo)
2021
Tennis Elbow, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Caitlin McBride and Shawn Powell, Nada Miami, Abattoir Gallery (Cleveland, OH), Miami, FL (two-person)
2020
Shawn Powell and Lauren Yeager, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH (two-person)
High Tide, Air In Space, Portland, OR (solo, online)
2019
Kindred, Downtown Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH (solo)
2017
Too Many Mornings, 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
The Shore, Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO (solo)
2014
Blue Tomorrows, Chapter NY, New York, NY (solo)
Cabin Fever, Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY (solo)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Moreover: 50 Paintings, curated by Michelle Grabner, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Free Hermit Crab Tomorrow, curated by Patrick Berran, Swells’a Brewing, Outer Banks, North Carolina
2023 Biennial Exhibition, Medici Museum of Art, Warren, Ohio.
2023
Living in the Play: Nido II, Parrocchia Ss. Filippo e Giacomo, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
Alfred/Düsseldorf Open Studio Exhibition, Alfred University, Düsseldorf , Germany
Presence as Object, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
2023 Biennial Exhibition, , Ohio Arts Council Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2022
nido, Parrocchia Ss. Filippo e Giacomo, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
Abattoir at Foreland, Foreland, Catskill, NY.
Tondo (3-person show), Marrow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nada + Friends (Peter Demos, Caitlin MacBride, Thomas Spoerndle, and Shawn Powell), Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2021
FAR & WIDE, Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, curated by Nicelle Beauchene and Franklin Parrasch, Woodstock, NY (open call)
White Columns’ Curated Artist Registry, 2018-2021, New York, NY (online)
Flat File Project, Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY (online)
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Center for Visual Arts, KSU, Kent, OH
2020
Selects, curated by Amanda Valdez, Air In Space, Portland, OR (online)
Small Works Show, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH
SmallWorks, Roy G Biv, Columbus, OH
The Drawing Exchange, Portland, OR (online)
2019
While Supplies Last-Museum Edition, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
G.I.F.C. Oslo Edition, Galleri Golsa, Oslo, Norway
The Drawing Exchange, Portland, OR (online)
2018
NADA New York, Velvet Ropes (G.I.F.C), Agathe Magazine and Vi se pa Kunst Magazine (Oslo), New York, NY
G.I.F.C , Velvet Ropes, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Drawing Exchange-Black Friday Edition, Portland, OR (online)
G.I.F.C., Velvet Ropes, 0-0 LA, Los Angeles, CA
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Center for Visual Arts, KSU, Kent, OH
2017
NADA New York, 106 Green Gallery (3-person show), New York, NY
Satellite Art Show (four-person), Duet Gallery, (St. Louis), Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL
Inaugural Exhibition, Benaco Artist Residency, Sirmione, Italy
Cities, Like Dreams, Swamps Where Cedars Grow, The Provincial, Kaleva, MI
The Drawing Exchange, Portland, OR (online)
2016
In the Works, Unisex Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Select Art Fair, Rhombus Space, New York, NY
No Sleep Til Berlin, Jostly, Berlin, Germany
New York With Love, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014
Salon I, Harbor, New York, NY
Contemporaries, Ernest Newman Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
PROMPT, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
Campfire, Academic, Queens, NY
Do It Yourself, 195 Morgan-3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Future Folk, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
Surface Intentions, Harbor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Ears, Nose, Throat, Wildlife, Brooklyn, NY
Faculty Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Westchester Community College, White Plains, NY
2012
Transformation/Transcreation, Hogarth International, New York, NY
The Brucennial, 159 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
2011
Liquid Matter, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Arrival/Departure, Urban Culture Project/La Esquina, Kansas City, MO
Continuing Color Abstraction, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Ripe, The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
2009
Alternative Abstraction, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2008
Altered States, Francis Lewis Gallery, Flushing, NY
CURATORIAL
2022
NEAR ZERO: Peter Demos and Russell Maltz, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Gianna Commito and Elise Ferguson, Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH
Jolynn Krystosek and Halsey Hathaway, Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH
2021
THE DEAD DON’T DIE, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Essye Klempner, Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH
Caitlin MacBride, Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH
Thomas Spoerndle, Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH
Peter Christian Johnson, Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH
Stephanie McMahon, Gazebo Gallery, Kent OH
2020
Time Out, Jonah Criswell, Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH
My Unrythmic Sibling, Vaughn Davis Jr., Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH
Untitled, Peter Demos, Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH
Dancing with the Distance, Janice Lessman-Moss, Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH
AWARDS, LECTURES, and RESIDENCIES
2023
Innovate Artist Grant Honorable Mention
Living in the Play: Nido II, Artist Residency, International Center for the Arts, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
Alfred/Düsseldorf Artist Residency, Düsseldorf , Germany
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award Grant, OH
2022
nido Residency, International Center for the Arts, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
2021
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award Grant, OH
2017
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
2010
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Panel Discussion & Studio Visits, Kansas City Art Institute,Kansas City, MO
2008
Tony Smith Award Grant, Hunter College, New York, NY
PERMANENT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
The Fidelity Art Collection, Boston, MA
The Cleveland Clinic Art Collection, London, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
New American Paintings, Issue 167, juried by Misa Jeffereis, March 2024.
“Shawn Powell’s Hovering Perspective,” Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Interview, October 1, 2023 [online] [ill.]
‘Hidden Gems: Meet Shawn Powell,” VoyageOhio.com, January 27, 2023, L.A., CA. [online] [ill.]
Plein Air Archives, with Leslie Baum, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy, June 21, 2022. [online] [ill.]
Mishak, Shawn, “Nada and Friends: Exhibition Opens at Abattoir Gallery Next Week,” ClevelandScene.com, February 4, 2021, Cleveland, OH. [online] [ill.]
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Powell is an Associate Professor in Painting and the Graduate Coordinator of the School of Art at Kent State University.